Wikibooks:General voting rules/Proposal/Version 4

This page documents a rejected Wikibooks policy or guideline proposal that should not be followed.It is documented here for historical reasons. If you would like to open up this proposal for reconsideration, do so on the discussion page.

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Low-impact decisions involve proposals that express the community's preferences and feelings about issues that fall well below the level of policy, and do not affect the long term culture or structure of Wikibooks. For these sorts of decisions, a simply majority vote may be used for convenience and clarity. Low impact decisions are those which will not affect the long term culture or policies of Wikibooks.

Examples of low impact decisions where majority rules voting would be acceptable are:

High-impact decisions involve the adoption or repeal of policies and guidelines that have a long term effect on the culture and structure of Wikibooks. These decisions should always be made through the process of building a community consensus. Such decisions include:

"Community consensus" is a state of existence arrived at by following a formal consensus decision making process. Ultimately the state of "community consensus" involves the vast majority of users agreeing on some decision.

The proposal may be modified to address these initial concerns and resubmitted for discussion.

A call for consensus regarding the proposal is made, possibly in the form of a straw poll.

If there are no objections, the proposal is accepted and affirmative "community consensus" has been reached on the proposal.

If there are still objections, the objections should be discussed and:

The proposal may be dropped. Affirmative "community consensus" for the proposal was not reached.

The proposal may be modified to address these objections and resubmitted for discussion.

A call for consensus regarding the proposal is made again, in spite of the objections. This action should not be taken lightly and should only occur after substantive good faith discussion of the proposal and objections has taken place. The community can:

Accept the proposal in spite of objections, and affirmative "community consensus" has been reached.

Not accept the proposal as "community consensus" has not been reached.